i'm the gsa administrator. thank you for the opportunity to testify today on gsa's role in the administration's government reform plan. specifically the reorganization of certain functions with respect to the office of personnel management. gsa's mission is to deliver value and savings in real estate acquisition, technology and other mission support services across government. in this testimony, i will lay out the case for why gsa is uniquely positioned to build on the work of opm and enhance the delivery of human capital operation services across government. as detailed in the president's reform plan, the consolidation of administrative support functions into a unified customer centric organization is a rational approach to management of any large organization. to that end, the plan identifies an expanded role for gsa, to provide administrative services to federal agencies. under the plan, gsa's role will expand most substantially through the move of certain human resource operational functions from opm to gsa

>> and final, the head of the gsa, a woman named emily murphy, was asked multiple times, was the president driving this, did he intervene, and he basically answered in a way that wasn't quite a lie, but led one to believe that the president had not. >> and that instance has been magnified in this report, but there are multiple instances where officials from the gsa and fbi have declined to say in front of congress what the white house's involvement in the decision have been and what the president's involvement in the decision has been. which i'm not even really clear the reason behind the dodging of those questions, because if the president wants to take a specific involvement in one real estate project, maybe it's just his prerogative. but if there's something larger there that they're covering up,ening that's the reason investigators are taking a piece at this. >> i think you put your finger on it. it's the sort of deception and dissembling around the president's role to me that is the thing that seems the strangest about this, as far as the facts that we know. jonathan o'connell and ann

and that is also at the gsa. and he was riding high, feeling great about his work there and had talked about, you know, maybe i will build -- bid on the fbi headquarters across the way. i mean, part of the over -- the other problem here, obviously, is that the head of the gs a is effectively the president's landlord at the same time she is the president's own appointee. so she -- her agency oversee s the president's lease. he still benefits from financially right now, in the old post office building, which is his hotel, while she is overseeing projects like the fbi. >> anne, am i -- that seems like such an obvious conflict on its face. >> well, that's exactly right. and if the president were any other federal employee, he would be conflicted out from even participating in discussions about where to site the fbi building, because he would have a direct and predictable financial interest in the outcome of that decision. but as we know, and as we've seen evidence of again and again, the president is not subject to t

gsa and the fbi will continue working on the issues. >> if you have been outside it feels hotter than for some reason. heat and humidity. current temperature down to 90 degrees. we saw 91 earlier. a lot of 90 degree temperatures from ohio, pittsburgh, 90 in philadelphia. the heat index well over 100 degrees in most locations. it will be the case thrgh the ne couple of days. feeling like 100 or more. we he it all in the forecast for you. >>> there is growing. much of it stems from actions or inactions taken here in washington. a former vatican official is callingn pope francis to resign claiming that he knew about sex abuse allegations against excardin. >> and news 4 joins us as ss holics are try to ing to pro is. >> a massive bomb shell. we are talking ability more than a million catholics. the claims come from the former vatican ambassador. he says that the pope knew abou, that it went straight to the top. it went through here in washington. all of this comes at what has been a really disturbing summer. it started back in june then came the pennsylvania grand jury report a few weeks